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Socrates, Human Nature, the 'Good Life,' and Plato's Gorgias

interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...

Evil Disease of Crime Cured in Gorgias by Plato

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

Ovid's Metamorphoses and Socrates in Plato's Apology

"Metamorphoses" and Socrates "Apology". While "Apology" is Platos account of Socrates trial and ultimate death it is also...

Truth, the 'Examined Life,' and Socrates

new ideas. The body supplies the means by which knowledge can be attained, for it is necessary, according to Plato, for things an...

Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard

he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...

Socrates to John Dewey on Education

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

Perceptions of Socrates by Plato and Aristophanes

profit than seeking knowledge. The schools headmaster was Socrates, and Strepsiades hopes that Phidippides will be able to apply ...

Student Question on a Person's Obligation to Obey Community Law

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

Value of Piety

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

Hypothetical Debate Between Presidential Candidates Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Thelma Z. Levine's From Socrates to Sartre

time. And, he was not content to attempt to dispel theories of old, but was also one to attempt the disruption of more modern appr...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Perspectives on the Soul, Socrates and Aristotle

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato

that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....

Socrates on the Body and Soul

the soul. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of di...

Justice Argument of Socrates

classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...

Justice and the Argument Between Socrates and Polemarchus in The Republic by Plato

do good, not evil to their friends (Plato, 2002). As this indicates, Polemarchus works hard to defend his fathers "rule of thumb...

Athens, Duty, Pericles and Socrates

that Pericles was a man who felt a powerful sense of duty to his city. He was, after all, an official who stood as one who support...

Parmenides Dialogue by Plato

that can be grasped with the human mind, but not with human senses (Gill, 1996,p. 1). The first part of the Parmenides, Plato has...

Views by Plato and Socrates That No One Knowingly Commits Wrong

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

Individual's Personal Duty to Country

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

Why Socrates 'Did' Philosophy According to J.S. Mill

In four pages John Stuart Mill's views on why philosophy was 'done' by Socrates are examined in a consideration of the ancient Gre...

Philosophical Views on Human Sexuality

In six pages the philosophical perspectives of Epicurus and Socrates among others are applied to a human sexuality interpretation....

Greek Orthodox Church and Philosophy

In twenty five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato as they influenced the origins of the...

An Examination of the Literary Criticism Launched Against Athenian Politics

This ten page paper explores the criticism Greek writers and philosophers such as Euripedes, Socrates, and Aeschylus had for the A...

Authority and Its Historical Challenges

This five pages this paper examines how authority was challenged by Socrates, Antigone, and Jesus Christ and how each suffered tra...

Learning, Recollection and Plato's Phaedo and Meno

In three pages this paper considers whether or not learning is new information or simply recollection of past experience according...